F1 2012 - Teams and Drivers - Who goes where?!

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Ok, silly season is upon us! Who wil go where? I will try to keep this thread up to date as and when information is available.

Red Bull Racing Red Bull RB8 - Renault
1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger)
2 Mark Webber (Aus)

Vodafone McLaren Mercedes McLaren TBA - Mercedes
3 Jenson Button (Gbr)
4 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr)

Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro Ferrari TBA
5 Fernando Alonso (Spa)
6 Felipe Massa (Bra)

Mercedes GP Petronas Mercedes TBA
7 Michael Schumacher (Ger)
8 Nico Rosberg (Ger)

Lotus Lotus TBA - Renault
9 Romain Grosjean (Fra)
10 Kimi Raikkonen (Fin)

Sahara Force India F1 Team Force India TBA - Mercedes
11 Paul Di Resta (Gbr)
12 Nico Hulkenberg (Ger)

Sauber F1 Team Sauber TBA - Ferrari
14 Kamui Kobayashi (Jap)
15 Sergio Perez (Mex)

Scuderia Toro Rosso Toro Rosso TBA - Ferrari
16 Jean Eric Vergne
17 Daniel Ricciardio

AT&T Williams Williams TBA - Renault
18 Pastor Maldonado
19 Bruno Senna

Caterham TBA - Renault
20 Heikki Kovalainen (Fin)
21 Jarno Trulli (Ita)

HRT F1 Team HRT TBA - Cosworth
22 Pedro de la Rosa (Spa)
23 TBA

Marussia TBA - Cosworth
24 Timo Glock (Ger)
25 Charles Pic (Fra)

Another World champion in the mix, woop!

Yellow = confirmed
Red = rumoured

Drivers in market with no confirmed seats:

Barichello - Nothing conrete, currently flying by the seat of his pants (29/11/2011)
Kubica - Unknown race fitness. His seat would seem to be taken, but there are still open talks with Lotus?! 2013 talk of Ferrari to replace Massa... (29/11/2011)
Sutil - Musings about him heading to Williams...(16/12/2011)
D'Ambrosio - No Seat confirmed anywhere, but talks are on-going (29/11/2011)
Senna - There was talk of him getting a look in at Lotus, but this seems far fetched now (29/11/2011)
Alguersuari - Rumours of HRT seat (16/12/2011)

BBC - SKY

2011 BBC Team
Jake Humphrey - Confirmed as staying with the BBC
Ted Kravitz - Rumoured to have jumped ship to SKY with Brundle
Martin Brundle - Led the move to SKY, taking Kravitz with him.
David Coulthard - Co-hosting still with Humphrey
Eddie Jordan - No word yet!
Lee Mckenzie - Will be pit lane reporter in 2012 for BBC
 
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I think he was at the young driver tests, and did a good job and impressed the team.
Not sure what else he is bringing in terms of money or sponsors, he has some pedigree in gp2 though. Not won any major series though...
 
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Di Resta will surely stay at FI for one more season at least. If he does well again, I can see him being snapped up as a number two somewhere perhaps to replace Massa (if Kubica fails to show up), maybe Mercedes will want him?
 
EddScott said:
Is the Kubica rumour of a Ferrari seat because he may never be fully fit but could probably cope being a No.2 driver?
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I think it has been being touted for a while now, I think the rumours were around pre-injury for Kubica. Couple of year ago at least. If anything the injury has pro-longed Massa's career (certainly at Ferrari) by a couple of years.
 
I was thinking that if you left F1 to go eslewhere you may drop out of the shop window. I suppose Grosjean disproves that to some extent... I would use Kimi as an Example, but Ex-champions don't seem to have issues coming back at the moment!
 
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